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| Series | Sonic Boom (TV series, 2014–2017) |
| Season | Season 1, episode 11 (S01E11) |
| Episode no. | 11 of 104 |
| US premiere | 31 January 2015 · Cartoon Network |
| France | 24 December 2014 · La vache fofolle |
| Written by | Story by Tom Pugsley; teleplay by Tom Pugsley and Alan Denton & Greg Hahn |
| Storyboard | Jean-Charles Andre |
| Directed by | Natalys Raut-Sieuzac |
| US viewers | 1.10 million (Nielsen, premiere) |
| Previous | Dude, Where’s My Eggman? (S01E10) |
| Next | Circus of Plunders (S01E12) |
Cowbot is episode 11 of Season 1 of Sonic Boom, the CGI comedy series made by OuiDo! Productions with Sega of America. It premiered in the United States on 31 January 2015 on Cartoon Network.
Synopsis
Team Sonic can’t stop laughing at Eggman’s new weapon, a robot cow that fires cud missiles, until he mentions that it is packed with Mootonium and will vaporise everything for twenty miles if anyone blows it up. The safe option is to tip it over and let Tails rewire it. The result: a Cowbot that now wants to destroy its own inventor.
Amy insists that letting that happen would be wrong, so a reluctant Sonic and Tails head to the lair, where Eggman has cannibalised his defences to build the thing. The cow is in no hurry, so the siege becomes a sleepover. With a freeze ray and a force field ready, the three of them sip hot chocolate, play coconut hurl and toast marshmallows by the fire, and the doctor admits he has no real friends.
When the big moment finally comes, sticky fingers short-circuit everything, but the mess gives Tails an idea: a bucketful of marshmallows, delivered by catapult, gums up the cow for good. Naturally the doctor then reveals it was all a ruse to get his security upgraded. Sonic gums that up too, and Orbot and Cubot finish the job by snacking.
Trivia
- On DVD: Universal’s UK volume The Sidekick (8 Feb 2016); in the US, NCircle’s Season One, Volume One (2019), Here Comes the Boom! (2019) and The Complete Season 1 (2021).
- French title: La vache fofolle. The episode aired in France on 24 December 2014, before its US premiere.
- About 1.10 million US viewers watched the premiere broadcast (Nielsen figures as listed by Wikipedia).
Watch the Episode
This episode does not have an official full upload on YouTube at the time of writing. Season 1 is on DVD from NCircle in the US (The Complete Season 1, 2021) and Universal in the UK (2016), and has been available on services including Hulu, Netflix and Tubi; see the series page for details.
Part of our Sonic Boom Season 1 guide. See the series page for the cast, the redesigns, the games and the comics.
Sources: air dates, writers and storyboard artists from Luke’s original Sonic Scene episode list, cross-checked with Wikipedia, Sonic Retro (Wayback copy) and Sonic Wiki Zone; synopsis written for Sonic Scene from the episode summaries on those sites; title card and screenshots via Sonic Wiki Zone, copied to our media library.